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... mind : terror being a stronger fen- fation than joy . Accordingly , a noble ode on the deftruction of Babylon , taken from the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah , has been written by Dr. Lowth ; whofe Latin prelec- tions on the inimitable ...
... mind : terror being a stronger fen- fation than joy . Accordingly , a noble ode on the deftruction of Babylon , taken from the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah , has been written by Dr. Lowth ; whofe Latin prelec- tions on the inimitable ...
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... ; much in the fame manner as the real fight of fuch fcenes and prospects is apt to give the mind a * Iliad . B. 16. in the notes : Ver . 465 . com- compofed turn , and incline it to thoughts and contemplations 30 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... ; much in the fame manner as the real fight of fuch fcenes and prospects is apt to give the mind a * Iliad . B. 16. in the notes : Ver . 465 . com- compofed turn , and incline it to thoughts and contemplations 30 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... mind fo ftrongly inclined to a moral way of writing . After fpeaking of hunting the hare , he immediately fubjoins , much in the fpirit of Denham , Beafts urg'd by us their fellow beafts purfue , And learn of man each other to undo ...
... mind fo ftrongly inclined to a moral way of writing . After fpeaking of hunting the hare , he immediately fubjoins , much in the fpirit of Denham , Beafts urg'd by us their fellow beafts purfue , And learn of man each other to undo ...
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... mind . Around th ' adjoining brook , that purls along The vocal grove , now fretting o'er a rock , Now fcarcely moving through a reedy pool , Now starting to a fudden stream , and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various ...
... mind . Around th ' adjoining brook , that purls along The vocal grove , now fretting o'er a rock , Now fcarcely moving through a reedy pool , Now starting to a fudden stream , and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various ...
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... minds the effects , which the fcene delineated would have on the present spectator or hearer . Thus having spoken of the roaring of the favages in a wilderness of Africa , he introduces a captive , who though just escaped from * prison ...
... minds the effects , which the fcene delineated would have on the present spectator or hearer . Thus having spoken of the roaring of the favages in a wilderness of Africa , he introduces a captive , who though just escaped from * prison ...
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